Normally sold for nearly $2,000, this nine-course educational package is designed to deliver long-term insight and basic understanding in a digestible and customizable manner — all at a greater ...

Since its launch two years ago Codecademy has become synonymous with online education for basic computer programming. In that time, the company says it’s learned a few things itself and today ...

DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: C/C++ Introduction to software engineering. Basic data types, variables, computer arithmetic, expressions, parentheses. Basic I/O – cout, cin. Introduction to classes – ...

In the 1950s, the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper designed a language called FLOW-MATIC (a name whose badassery has yet to be outdone) that used plain-English-like commands such as IF ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC.

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...